We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church